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The Truth About "Puberty Blockers" My @WSJopinion piece today This is just one issue from my reporting research on the gender industry. Next week I'll publish on justthefacts.media/ a much longer article re the background to this OpEd wsj.com/articles/the-truth-a…
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A quick Saturday afternoon geopolitical musing: Every Iran deal framework demands "opening the Strait of Hormuz" as an Iranian concession. Problem: It was open before this war. Iran closed it. Demanding they reopen it is not a concession — it's the minimum to return to the pre-war status quo. Crediting the Islamic Republic for reopening it is like thanking Timothy McVeigh for getting Oklahoma City a new federal building.
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Well @JohnFetterman ✔️ right on Israel ✔️ wrong on men in women’s sports ✔️wrong on JFK 1 out of 3 might be a good batting average for a baseball player, but it’s not good enough for a U.S. Senator Read Case Closed
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. does not have “enough evidence to convince any jury in America, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the CIA killed his uncle.” That claim is delusional. Families of assassination victims are often too consumed by grief and emotion to examine the evidence objectively. The King family was duped by one of James Earl Ray’s own attorneys into believing that Ray was innocent and that a vast conspiracy of Army intelligence, the FBI, and CIA had murdered Dr. King. They were wrong. The evidence against Ray alone was overwhelming and remains so. I reviewed it all in my extensive reinvestigation, Killing the Dream, in 1998. RFK Jr. is trapped in the same emotional prison. He cannot accept that his uncle and his father were killed by lone assassins acting on their own warped motivations. It apparently makes the deaths feel less senseless. But there is no evidence — none — that meets any rigorous legal standard to prove the CIA orchestrated either murder. Of course, that does not mean that such a conspiracy theory is not popular. It thrives on the paranoia and false narratives that are an integral part of the DNA of social media. As a sitting Cabinet secretary, repeating this is not brave. It is irresponsible. Twenty-four-year-old Sirhan Sirhan assassinated Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. It was the first act of Palestinian terrorism on American soil. RFK paid with his life for supporting the rearming of Israel after the 1967 Six-Day War, targeted by a Palestinian who decided violence was the answer. The parallel to today writes itself. JFK was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald, who had also just turned 24. The overwhelming physical evidence shows that Oswald was the assassin and further study reveals how and why he alone decided to kill JFK. Case Closed, my 1993 book, settled the outstanding questions and nothing since has changed that conclusion. Get over it. The facts are stubborn. They do not bend to family grief or political narrative.
BREAKING: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reportedly has enough evidence to convince any jury in America, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the CIA killed his uncle, John F. Kennedy.
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"Stop the boats" protests across Britain today. An illegal migrant. An attempted beheading. A year ago I walked through London wearing my Star of David and wrote about my native city that had stopped integrating. I warned that parallel societies don't stay parallel. They collide. Many called me alarmist. Was I?
I was born in London and just returned after decades away. I felt a stranger in my own birthplace. Parallel societies. Sharia ‘no-go zones.’ Rising antisemitism. London no longer feels like home. Could NYC be next under Zohran Mamdani? My @nypost op-ed👇 nypost.com/2025/08/02/opinio…
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Never say never. In 2018, Jeff Bezos became the first person on the Forbes Billionaires list to officially cross $100 billion. I remember @trishaposner wondering if we’d live to see a trillionaire. “Never,” I told her. That same year Apple became the first publicly traded company to hit a $1 trillion valuation. “No way,” I said, “will we live to see one person worth a trillion dollars.” I should have paid more attention to #24 in the Forbes wealthiest that year. @elonmusk came in at $19.9 billion. A LOT of money, no doubt. But a great distance from a trillion dollars. Lesson learned: underestimate Elon Musk at your own peril.
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No therapist accepts a 14-year-old's self-diagnosis of bipolar disorder. Questioning it is the job. Unless the diagnosis is gender. I flagged SB 934 here two days ago. I've now written an in-depth piece about how California is building a law where caution is the malpractice and the scalpel is the safe harbor. Full Just the Facts piece in the first reply below 👇
Just when I think California’s political class cannot push further to the edge on gender policy, it manages to surprise me. Senate Bill 934 just cleared the Assembly Judiciary Committee 7-3 along party lines. It would allow former "gender conversion therapy" patients to sue their therapists for monetary damages — with a statute of limitations of 22 years if the patient was a minor at the time of therapy, and 10 years for adults. The real-world effect? Exactly what Sen. Scott Wiener, the bill's author, wants: a total chilling effect on "watchful waiting" — the careful, evidence-based approach most appropriate for gender-confused minors. Therapists will rush kids into the medical pipeline rather than risk a lawsuit two decades later for practicing... traditional psychotherapy. Clinical psychologist Joseph Burgo said it plainly at Tuesday's committee hearing: "In supervising therapists today, I constantly hear their anxiety over their legal exposures or risks to their license if they do just that — practice traditional exploratory psychotherapy. These are not conversion therapists. These are honest clinicians who want to practice traditional psychotherapy with gender-distressed young people, but they're afraid to do so." This Senate Bill will now bake that fear into the law. This isn't protecting vulnerable kids. It's using the legal system to enforce a single medically contested ideology on every therapist in the state, under penalty of ruinous litigation. And it will hurt the children it claims to protect.
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One year ago today, I debated at the Oxford Union: “Profit motives have no place in public health.” I argued for the motion alongside Dame Ijeoma Uchegbu, President of Wolfson College, Cambridge. Opposing us: a former FDA commissioner and Pfizer’s former chief medical officer. I had a secret weapon—@trishaposner in the room. And pre-debate advice from @KonstantinKisin, who had been there before: “Smash it.” We did. Final vote was a 10–1 margin landslide. Here’s my full 12-minute presentation. Worth noting: a good debater argues either side. That night, I had the easier one. ⬇️
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Here’s the single fact that shocked the room that night—and 15 seconds that helped changed the direction of the debate ⬇️
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Just when I think California’s political class cannot push further to the edge on gender policy, it manages to surprise me. Senate Bill 934 just cleared the Assembly Judiciary Committee 7-3 along party lines. It would allow former "gender conversion therapy" patients to sue their therapists for monetary damages — with a statute of limitations of 22 years if the patient was a minor at the time of therapy, and 10 years for adults. The real-world effect? Exactly what Sen. Scott Wiener, the bill's author, wants: a total chilling effect on "watchful waiting" — the careful, evidence-based approach most appropriate for gender-confused minors. Therapists will rush kids into the medical pipeline rather than risk a lawsuit two decades later for practicing... traditional psychotherapy. Clinical psychologist Joseph Burgo said it plainly at Tuesday's committee hearing: "In supervising therapists today, I constantly hear their anxiety over their legal exposures or risks to their license if they do just that — practice traditional exploratory psychotherapy. These are not conversion therapists. These are honest clinicians who want to practice traditional psychotherapy with gender-distressed young people, but they're afraid to do so." This Senate Bill will now bake that fear into the law. This isn't protecting vulnerable kids. It's using the legal system to enforce a single medically contested ideology on every therapist in the state, under penalty of ruinous litigation. And it will hurt the children it claims to protect.
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In line with this story about Senate Bill 934 in California, many new readers might like "Who Put the Kids in Charge, a piece I wrote in 2024 about how therapists in the U.S. essentially have to essentially only affirm a child's sense of 'gender identity' justthefacts.media/p/who-put…
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Under oath before Congress, Loudoun Virginia County Schools Supt. Aaron Spence was asked if biological men should be in locker rooms and shower rooms with biological girls. His answer: “Federal law requires it. Yes.” It does NOT. The Dept. of Education ruled the opposite — LCPS’s policy violates Title IX, and the district is under active federal investigation for it. This is what ideological capture looks like.👇
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For those who want to see the travesty of the full bill 👇 leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/f…

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Today marks the 6th anniversary of @jk_rowling's remarkable and important essay about her "reasons for speaking out sex and gender issues." It is powerful, personal—and undeniably courageous. It is as relevant today as when she wrote it. Her experience is a case study in what happens if you challenge a rigid ideological orthodoxy. The backlash is immediate, relentless, and often vicious. As she asked then, “So why am I doing this? Why speak up? Why not quietly do my research and keep my head down?” I find inspiration in JK's consistent fight for the truth and her refusal to be intimidated and scared away by the online mob. Read JK's essay here: jkrowling.com/opinions/j-k-r…

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After I debated at the Oxford Union last June, two subsequent presidents revealed their true views. George Abaraonye cheered Charlie Kirk’s assassination (“Charlie Kirk got shot, let’s f**ing go”). He later apologized to Kirk's family but was ousted after a no-confidence vote. Now, Arwa Elrayess — the first ever Palestinian president — called Oct 7 “proportional to the severity of oppression” & said Hamas would one day be “lauded as heroes.” She is now trying to walk it back, telling the Jewish Chronicle that "I condemn Hamas' targeting of innocent civilians, just as I condemn the targeting of innocent civilians by the IDF" Not much of an apology. A no-confidence motion fell 34 signatures short of the 150 required. I give so credence to their original inflammatory statements because they were leaked from private group-chats — a place of comfort where someone is more likely to share unvarnished thinking, as opposed to the subsequent polished and more moderate public versions. I believe in second chances. But when Oxford Union presidents keep revealing in private what they really think — celebrating assassinations or justifying Oct 7 — the apologies feel like PR damage control and have no authenticity. Let's return to debate, not extremism. Restore the Union. #OxfordUnion
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Amazing crime stats 🔹2/3 of crime committed by 10% of criminals 🔹Expand out to 80% of crime, and it's 20% of criminals. Reminds me in a very different area—healthcare—of my discovery when I wrote PHARMA. 🔹5% of patients account for about half of U.S. healthcare spending
80% of crime is committed by 20% of criminals. One review found the most active 10% of criminals commit 66% of all crime. 327 people accounted for 6,000 NYC shoplifting arrests in 2022. As of last year, 63 New Yorkers had racked up 5,000 subway arrests between them. (And, of those criminals, only five were in custody!) Our justice system let's habitual offenders off of the hook because it treats the offense, not the offender. Every decision — arrest, bail, charging, sentencing — turns on what was just done, not on who keeps doing it. The same handful of people churn through the system again and again. The fix is focusing the system around offenders: focused deterrence on the violent few, bail that weighs reoffense risk, smarter three-strikes laws, and better tracking of career criminals. Stop sorting by crime. Start sorting by criminal. @ManhattanInst senior fellow @CharlesFLehman in @thedispatch thedispatch.com/article/crim…
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Seems like the victory party for Graham Platner is well underway
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Nice try at gaslighting, @NickKristof. Blaming Netanyahu for the public's opinion shift while pretending years of slanted NYT coverage had nothing to do with it? This is yet another example of why trust in legacy media has collapsed
How rich is this? @NickKristof blames the shift in American opinion away from Israel — now with more sympathizing with Palestinians than Israelis for the first time in decades — on “one of the legacies of Bibi Netanyahu.” Really, Nick? Nothing to do with years of slanted anti-Israel coverage in your own paper? Your prominent platforming of wild propaganda like “Israeli trained rape dogs”? Or the Qatar-funded campus indoctrination that’s taught a generation of students Israel is a “White colonial apartheid outpost”? Don’t pretend this reversal happened in a vacuum. Own your role in it. Balance and basic journalistic integrity used to matter.
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London might have many problems. But it also has something wonderful: lots of bookstores. When @trishaposner & I visited last year for my Oxford Union debate, we spent lots of free time browsing the stacks. Miami Beach, where we live, does not have a single bookstore, its last one closed a few years ago.
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Oxford in 2026. Censorship bullies win. Free speech loses again.
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